Changelog

New Features

• Add support for shared-nothing clusters
• New pool fencing code
• New MHDC code. Added support for Linux and FreeBSD
• Failfast capabilities added for Linux and FreeBSD

Bug Fixes

• 129 bugs fixed since 1.5.0 release
• Fixed issue where RSF running status was reported incorrectly
• Fixed issue where an already imported unclusterable pool offers import as valid action
• REST API now restarted after initial setup to prevent potential issues with user creation
• Pool actions present either start or auto based on service state
• Fixed pool discovery bug in Linux and FreeBSD when using multipath
• Fixed service with VIPs removal failure
• Fixed service creation failure when VIP was included
• Fixed errors on linux from rsfsyseventd
• Fixed multiple errors related to netplan in Ubuntu
• Fixed heartbeat issues in TrueNAS

Improvements

• New SCSI key structure for disk reservations
• Improved logging system
• Added more detailed information when a pool is not clusterable
• Improved event alerts
• Re-write dashboard page to a new user-friendly design
• Merge cluster control page with new dashboard
• Removed modals for volume, user and cluster actions in favor of flat design
• Password fields now support auto-completion feature on supported browsers
• Providing a hostname when adding a Virtual IP is now optional
• A force import option is provided if an attempt to import a pool fails with an error advising it as an option
• A hosts file message is shown when a hostname is provided when adding a Virtual IP
• FAQ link now directs to the HAC documentation hub
• Upgraded to Angular 13
• Upgrade to Python 3.9.12

Other

• Added support for OpenZFS 2.x
• Added support for Debian 11 Bullseye
• Added support for Alma Linux 8
• Added support for Rocky Linux 8
• Added support for FreeBSD 13.1
• Added support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Removed support for Centos 8
• Removed support for Debian 10
• Removed support for OpenIndiana Hipster

New Features

• SG-547 Webapp: show modal for netplan on Ubuntu package install
• SG-737 Web App: Add package updates support & improve menu components implementation
• SG-756 Web App: Add multipath switch and prompt for Linux
• SG-768 Create systemd unit for stmfha (RPC)
• SG-773 Web App: Enable support for FQDN vip hostnames
• SG-694 Web App: Add additional volumes management

Bug Fixes

• SG-428 Web App: Investigate renewing session to prevent expiry while in use
• SG-706 Virtual Hostname Page Does Not show VIP's if one node is down
• SG-745 Web App: Boolean properties don't show correct value selector
• SG-748 disk_list does not support active-active multipath configurations
• SG-749 disk_list does not work as expected in Linux
• SG-752 disk_list fails when heartbeat disk replaced
• SG-753 unknown device detected in disk_list must break the service start
• SG-754 S21 tries to use stmfha rsync in Linux/BSD
• SG-761 REST: Typo in property update response
• SG-764 Web App: Update error handling for RSF-1 not running on local node
• SG-767 REST: caching policy needs a paint work
• SG-774 disk_list reserving all drives on zpool causing heartbeats to fail

Improvements

• SG-000 IPS repositories and offiline packages should be served over HTTPS
• SG-740 Web App: Provide a direct link to user management for admins
• SG-744 New shared NetIf
• SG-747 Web App: Add FAQ module
• SG-758 Add rpcbind as a dependency

Other

• SG-562 Webapp: needs to handle Exception reasons from the REST API

New Features

• SG-667 Users can now (un)share NFS and Samba services (ZFS datasets) using the Web App
• SG-673 Web App: Add user management options and support for permissions
• SG-715 Reservation drive configuration files are now sync-ed via Rest API
• SG-718 Linux and FreeBSD clusters have now automated disk heartbeats and SCSI reservations configuration. No user configuration is needed from this release.
• SG-721 Provide product version via Web App
• SG-731 Support latest OmniOS LTS r151038 (released on the 3rd of May 2021)

Bug Fixes

• SG-703 Fixed internal error when listing cluster able ZFS pools
• SG-704 OpenIndiana Hipster - Virtual FQDN IP not getting plumbed
• SG-709 Cannot repair a panicked service from the Web App
• SG-710 FreeBSD - Fixed bug in disked path for disk heartbeats
• SG-724 Web App correctly displays the alert when a service has been blocked because the ZFS pool has been manually imported by the user
• SG-727 Rest API: fixed errors when handling rsfmon restart. This bug fix also covers DNS errors that triggered the same error
• SG-730 Centos 7/8: nawk is required as a dependency
• SG-733 rsfmon.log no longer displays error 'CRUD_rsfdb’
• SG-735 Block service start if ZFS pool has been manually imported. Cluster-wide and node-wide operations are also monitored in this scenario.

Improvements

• SG-685 Selecting and De-selecting heartbeats causes them to be greyed
• SG-702 Web App: Improve handling of intercepted REST errors
• SG-712 Rest API: global code coverage extended with two new engines
• SG-714 Web App: Restructure utility classes
• SG-716 CLI: now compiled with Golang 1.16
• SG-725 Python: upgrade to 3.8.9 (security upgrade)

Other

• SG-713 Web App: Add alias for shared module directory
• SG-722 Web App: Implement GET method for package version in About page
• SG-723 Web App: Upgrade to Angular 11 and ESLint

New Features

• SG-613 Web App: Add option to keep pool imported and vip plumbed after service removal
• SG-644 Add Docker commands to hacli
• SG-665 Web App: Add additional volumes viewer

Bug Fixes

• SG-634 Replace node dialogue box goes blank after querying for available nodes
• SG-635 Web App: Links need to be blocked when RSF-1 isn't running on local node
• SG-651 REST: handle The ZFS modules are not loaded.
• SG-653 Pools with no redundancy cannot be clustered
• SG-669 Web App: Licensing guard incorrectly blocking navigation with no licence
• SG-670 Web App: Optimisation in production build breaks logic for routing guard styling
• SG-671 Unable to select node when trying to move service through GUI
• SG-676 REST: ignore IPv6 discovered nodes if IPv6 connection cannot be stablished
• SG-677 Pools not showing on Pools page in solaris
• SG-678 REST: AUTH: do NOT store the IP in the cookie jar
• SG-682 Disk Heartbeats appear to be failing on OpenIndiana
• SG-683 REST: vip down on active service if system reports FQDN
• SG-686 FreeBSD 12 NEEDS reopen disk hb sockets (like in metroha)
• SG-688 Service create is unable to get vdevs for heartbeats when using multipath
• SG-695 unable to manually move services
• SG-697 OpenIndiana direct io disk hbs
• SG-666 Web App: Cannot go to services page after creating a cluster
• SG-669 Web App: Licensing guard incorrectly blocking navigation with no licence
• SG-670 Web App: Optimisation in production build breaks logic for routing guard styling
• SG-671 Unable to select node when trying to move service through GUI

Improvements

• SG-392 Web App: Tidy up heartbeats code
• SG-398 Web App: Tidy up volumes code [Add ability to import and export pool]
• SG-557 Make disk_list work in FreeBSD
• SG-596 IPv6 Review family=socket.AF_INET in SSL requests
• SG-606 Feature request: Licence support status
• SG-617 Can we present exported pools for clustering on all platforms?
• SG-629 Unable to repair/recover panicked/broken_unsafe services inside of the GUI
• SG-633 Add cache buster to web app
• SG-637 Sync with Docker progress (VMS-SG projects)
• SG-648 SG-647 REST API: create CRUD methods for Docker services
• SG-652 REST: move ZFS methods to its own module
• SG-655 REST: Linux only. Improve device handling in the API for virtual devices
• SG-659 REST: support multipath
• SG-660 REST: change zfs snapshot destruction from DEL to POST (request needs a body)
• SG-675 REST: avoid caching node's private address
• SG-679 REST: ignore QEMU vendor in disks (exported)
• SG-687 REST: ignore diskHeartbeats sent if they are invalid
• SG-690 Config dist is quite slow on Omnios and Solaris on the new bdd nodes
• SG-691 SG: use PGR3 in Solaris and derivatives
• SG-699 BDD: fix pool geoms and test fencing
• SG-701 BSD: resolve MultiPath drives to the underlying devices and use them for heartbeats.

Other

• SG-647 Docker: Shared nothing clusters. Replication

Improvements

• NEX-521 TCP support for IPv6
• SG-596 IPv6 Review family=socket.AF_INET in SSL requests
• SG-617 Present exported pools for clustering on all platforms
• SG-651 REST: handle The ZFS modules are not loaded.
• SG-652 FF rest submodule and define zfs_pool_get in payload
• SG-659 REST: support multipath
• SG-660 FF rest remove zfs snapshots DEL2POST

Bug Fixes

• SG-569 Web App: Error handler should take user back to previous input instead of main screen
• SG-599 OpenIndiana 2020.04 rsfzfslib cannot be built
• SG-602 Can't add vip to a service on eth0 when creating
• SG-603 Null values being passed to node replace from web gui
• SG-604 Error in node replace cause feedback loop when trying to revert
• SG-607 CentOS package upgrade removes systemd services for rsf-1 and rsf-rest
• SG-610 Web App: Upgrade to Angular 10
• SG-612 Web App: Fix build issue that is causing long build time
• SG-616 Improve "no clusterable services found" message. It needs to be more user friendly
• SG-618 Web App: Cannot update properties with limited options
• SG-621 REST: services info does not show preferredNode correctly
• SG-626 Web App: Expired licence doesn't block page links
• SG-630 Centos: upgrade does not work (rsf-1 service is lost)

Improvements

• SG-340 Web App: Add REST health check on login screen
• SG-344 Show 503 complete response in GUI
• SG-391 Make code more Angular friendly
• SG-605 Web App: Display any reported error in cluster discovery panel
• SG-620 Add support for Openindiana 2020
• SG-625 REST + CLI: allow to bypass node discovery if force arg is True (disabled by default)

Bug Fixes

• HI-578 RSFAPI: Core dump on Linux if passwd file is not correctly set
• SG-601 Deadlock in Webapp licensing (clean install)

Bug Fixes

• SG-591 Web App: Blank dashboard when licence has expired
• SG-594 Web App: Endpoint for re-issue licence is missing

Improvements

• SG-567 Update Ubuntu 20.04 dependencies for deb package
• SG-595 Web App: Use browser port as REST API communication port
• SG-597 CLI: add node info method
• SG-598 REST: add node info endpoint

Bug Fixes

• SG-590 New lics - Dump licensing server response to licences.txt

Bug Fixes

• SG-587 Manual Testing - Replace Node option in gui gives errors

New Features

• HI-533 Added IPv6 network heartbeat support to standalone

Bug Fixes

• HI-559 RSFCDB: Port NEX-495 fixes to SQLite
• HI-562 RSFCDB: get_net_heartbeat_link_id() cannot locate existing link ID
• HI-570 Fix the check for OPT_ZFS_MHDC_DISABLE
• SG-574 Abort cluster destruction if any service defined. Can be ignored by force flag.
• SG-570 Kicked out of web gui when rebooting a node
• SG-577 Upgrade to Python 3.8.3
• SG-579 Disable rsfmon start ONLY for FreeBSD on package install
• SG-584 Pull in fix for zfs_mhdc_disable in rest API
• SG-585 mhdc-freebsd can't handle losing .scsi_key
• SG FF NEX-500_NEX-22765-Port-NEX-22674-HA-disk-heartbeats-do-not-recover

Improvements

• HI-565 RSFCDB: Add ability to ignore primary vips
• SG-442 RSFCDB: Port over ability to add custom monitor tags from GDBM version
• SG-575 REST: Add support for IPv6 network heartbeats
• SG-583 Web App: Modify service creation payload to omit options that the user cannot override

Bug Fixes

• SG-551 REST: empty response on active node when remote REST service is disabled
• SG-565 Fix support/failover-scripts/S30ctld

Other

• SG-519 Sync with rsf.git

Improvements

• SG-544 Detect and use netplan for Ubuntu LTS
• SG-550 update rest submodule (db_sync)

Bug Fixes

• SG-000 rsf2 sync: Make S30 python 3 (support fo scripts) Fix checkmount.cc for BSD (getfsstat)
• SG-537 Updated Web App to include fix for cookie expiry issue
• SG-540 Fix swagger location in payload
• SG-540 Global tools REST docs. Updated latest swagger/yaml documentation
• SG-541 Python 3.8.1 reference main repo
• SG-555 Fixes for BSD pool handling. REST commit for close_fds

Improvements

• SG-533 REST API: propagate licensing server errors to final user
• SG-539 Sync Node operation events
• SG-542 Update multi-cluster events

Other

• SG-532 Sometimes rsf-XXX services are not being imported in SMF in Omnios and OI

New Features

• SG-523 New RSF version modal alert in GUI

Bug Fixes

• SG-535 Missing files on RSF-1 for CentOS (maybe other Linux variants)
• SG-536 REST: fix unplumb vip with non-standard netmasks

Improvements

• SG-397 Webapp: improve vips code
• SG-490 Support Centos 8. New cert.pem (4K) as the older was not valid in Centos 8 (key too small)
• SG-524 Find nodes: Alert users when local hostname resolves to 127.x (preface to all nodes resolve to 127.x)
• SG-533 REST API: propagate licensing server errors to final user

Other

• SG-531 Add fmri=pkg:/network/iscsi/target as required dependency for RSF-1 in Solaris/IllumOS packages
• SUP-83 Change package description/summary

Bug Fixes

• SG-516 NetIF.py alters the netmask in Linux

Improvements

• SG-517 SSL certificate upgraded to 4K

Bug Fixes

• SG-512 GUI can't handle hyphens in VIP hostnames

Improvements

• SG-509 CLI: reuse go get modules if already in repository

New Features

Bug Fixes

• SG-493 Fix local ZFS pools does not work in Centos 7.7
• SG-494 Something is off with destroy cluster in Centos (services defined)
• SG-491 Error when creating a service with a VIP
• SG-492 Web App: Router module not redirecting/refreshing page after creating service or vip
• SG-461 Web App: Dashboard should indicate any errors received from REST

Improvements

• HI-504 RSFCDB: Add storage type property to a service
• HI-517 RSFCDB: Add multiple mount point support
• HI-527 RSFCDB: Add CLI command to list mount points
• HI-526 RSFCDB: Add environment export flag to list_props

Other

• HI-521 RSFCDB: Check build in CentOS 8 with the libnsl library

Bug Fixes

• SG-415 Review disk hb syntax for additional pools
• SG-460 Cannot build webapp in FreeBSD 12
• SG-470 Fixes needed for FreeBSD 12
• SG-471 FreeBSD 12: MOUNT_POINT check failed, "/bsdpool2" is still not mounted
• SG-472 REST: Calls to modify DB properties do not return if cluster is in broken state
• SG-475 Solaris 11.4: cannot create 2-disk services (1 or 3+ is fine)
• SG-476 Ubuntu 18: SCSI reservations fail with 1-disk pool
• SG-477 DB: additional disk heartbeats are left in DB after service removal
• SG-480 RSF: rsfmon stays stopped after Linux upgrade. Need a service rsf-1 start
• SG-485 REST API: Cluster creation with rsfmon stopped on remote node returns bananas
• SG-486 REST API: Node discovery is broken in FreeBSD
• SG-487 Webapp: rsfhttp/webapp/package.json causes the package to be tagged as unstable

Improvements

• SG-394 Web App: Tidy up properties code
• SG-437 Clean debris for SG project
• SG-465 Web App: Highlight "Panicked" status in red background on cluster control page
• SG-469 Web App: Move the template line break to the router outlet
• SG-478 API: FreeBSD add SCSI res to additional pools in service_pool_add
• SG-479 Web App: Automate app version tagging
• SG-481 Web App: Upgrade to Angular 8
• SG-482: REST API: Upgrade to Python 3.7.4
• SG-483 REST API: enforce ACL once admin user has been created